Summary: What You Can Do

Stress if virtually impossible to avoid in our life, and is often necessary for learning and growth. However, a prolonged stress response can cause significant damage, particularly to a part of our brain that is essential for memory. Therefore, it is essential that we learn healthy ways to mitigate or managing our stress. This chapter provides insights into a variety of approaches that have been found to help insulate against excessive stress, ideas that will enable you to effectively control the stress in your life. 

What you can do: 

1. Identify two or three strategies from those noted above that you can use to better manage the stress in your life. 
2. Practice these until they become a natural part of your stress response.